Posted on 09/07/2010 8:40:43 PM PDT by Labour-Watch
With the smug incomprehension in which it takes so much pride (can’t understand – won’t understand!), the BBC sets about the American Tea Party Movement as if it were a cross between the Klu Klux Klan and the German neo-fascist brigade. Not once in all the demonic depictions I have seen and heard (last week’s Newsnight package was particularly outrageous) have I heard a mention of what the TPM is actually about: taxation. (Note to BBC editors: the movement is named after the Boston Tea Party because it is protesting about the imposition of higher federal taxes and over-weening controls on citizens who believe their voices have been ignored.)
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What’s new. They completely failed to understand ‘America’ when I lived there. Absolute condescending elitism.
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It was the British government's inability to understand the Boston Tea Party and its exaggerated reaction to it (the Intolerable Acts) that really set the ball rolling towards independence, so it's appropriate that they don't understand the new Tea Party either.
The BEEB, to put it in language they would understand, are Wankers.
They missed the point in 1776 also. What else is new?
Yes, well done.
I bet they didn’t watch coverage of the “Restore Honor” rally. There’s no way to refute the intent of such honorable people.
America?
Well it starts with God, and then proceeds through the destratification of society via equal opportunity and a disdain for the nonsense of “bloodlines”.
I’m an at-risk youth!
“Note to BBC editors: the movement is named after the Boston Tea Party”
They’re still PO’ed about the first tea party. LOL
Resistance to the Obama healthcare reforms is as passionate as it is precisely because it imposes a federal requirement to purchase health insurance which seems to contravene the basic economic freedom guaranteed by the Constitution. The BBC obviously finds it impossible to believe that ordinary people could actually take issues like this seriously.
The BBC certainly isn't unique in journalism in that it has consistently failed to perform journalism's defining task: it hasn't asked. The author is correct, it should, and so should American journalists, most of whom haven't either.
The issue is the fundamental relationship between citizen and state. And the question isn't how could "ordinary people" care about it, but what the desolate and evil results are when they don't.
Probably still waiting for us to pay for the tea destroyed in the original Boston Tea Party.
“There’s no way to refute the intent of such honorable people.”
Wanna bet????
Look around the internet.
CBS’s low-ball 87,000 “Glen Beck Nutcases”, that CBS announced BEFORE the rally, has become the “Accepted” number.
The professional left (People who agitate on your tax dollars, FOR your tax dollars), have very effective campaigns, and willing shills in the media to spread their propaganda.
History repeats itself?
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